Foundations
- What is a Government?
Terms: monarchy, oligarchy, democracy, state, legislature, executive, judiciary, constitution, authority, community, civil society, constitutions.
- Types of Government.
Terms: natural form of governments, perverted form of government, corruption, monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, policy, democracy, direct democracy, indirect democracy, institutions.
- What is Politics?
Terms: politics, power relations, resources, status, the distribution of material goods, individuals, groups, legal system, military, police, influence.
- What is Political Culture?
Terms; attitudes, beliefs, sentiments, discourses, symbolic practices, individualism, moralistic, traditionalism.
Lectures - optional
- Why do you have to take this class?
- What is power?
- No Really . . . why do you have to take this class?
- Aristotle and His Classification of Government.
- Max Weber: Power and Authority.
- The First Virginia Charter 1606.
- Territorial History of the USA: Every Month for 400 Years.
- Aristotle's Systems of Government.
- Stephen Austin's contract to bring settlers to Texas, 1825.
- Territorial History of the USA: Every Month for 400 Years.
- Territorial Development of Texas.
Terminology
Government
Politics
Self-Rule
Democracy
Republic
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Institutions
Equality
Equal Opportunity
Equal Outcome
Political Equality
Social Equality
Freedom
Negative Liberty
Positive Liberty
Conflict
American Exceptionalism
Ideology
Conservative
Liberal
Political Culture
Individualistic
Moralistic
Traditionalistic
Community
Religion
individualistic political culture
law and order
minimal government
political culture
religiosity
segregation
suburbanization
Tejanos
Texas Miracle
traditionalistic political culture
Government
Politics
History
Settlement
Filibusters
Empresarios
Revolution
Texas Declaration of Independence
Republic of Texas
Statehood
Federalism
Mexican - American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Confederacy
Reconstruction
Redeemers
Reform
Great Depression
New Deal
Great Society
Reagan Revolution
Presidential Republicanism
Oil Bust
21st Century
Political Culture
Individualistic
Moralistic
Traditionalistic
Population Growth
Increased Diversity
